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Letter: Government Must Slash Electricity Prices to Boost Green Tech
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 10 – The UK Government rejected zonal electricity pricing to avoid higher costs for steelmakers and support industrial competitiveness during the clean energy transition, UK Steel said.
- On Thursday, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband announced that the UK Government will not introduce zonal pricing and will keep a single national wholesale electricity price.
- This decision follows opposition from UK Steel and business groups who warned zonal pricing would create a postcode lottery and raise industrial power costs.
- Ed Miliband stated building clean power rapidly at scale is essential to protect families, businesses, and end dependence on fossil fuel market volatility.
- Energy firm SSE called the move “much-needed policy clarity,” enabling investment in clean energy infrastructure supporting UK Government ambitions for 2030.
- The decision aims to safeguard investment and industrial competitiveness while critics warn bills remain high and question the feasibility of promised £300 bill cuts.
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Plans to split UK market into energy pricing zones dropped
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UK Drops Controversial Proposal to Split Power Market into Zones
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Just In: Government Scraps Zonal Pricing Plans - A Win for Business and Common Sense
Just In: Government Scraps Zonal Pricing Plans – A Win for Business and Common Sense We’ve just had word that the Government has confirmed it will not be introducing zonal pricing as part of its Review of Electricity Market Arrangements (REMA) — and here at Doncaster Chamber, we’re welcoming this news as a win for common sense. Zonal pricing would have meant charging different prices for electricity d…
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